§19-21-40. Consolidation of adjacent districts.
Any two or more adjacent districts, whether incorporated in
the same or different counties, may be united and consolidated in
one district, and such new district and the board of supervisors
thereof shall have the rights, powers and privileges of any
districts organized under this article. In order to effect such
consolidation, the board of supervisors of each of the original
districts shall call an election in the same manner as elections
of supervisors, stating the time, place and object of such
election. If a majority of the acreage voting in each district
vote in favor of the proposition to unite and consolidate such
districts, the board of supervisors of each district shall
present a petition to the circuit court of the county in which
the greatest amount of the land is located, accompanied with a
complete return of such election, in which petition shall be
stated the name of the original district, when established, the
names of the owners of the lands and boundaries of the district.
When such petition has been filed, the circuit clerk shall give
notice of such filing in the manner provided for giving notice in
section four of this article, which notice shall state the
contents of such petition and the objects sought and the term of
court at which such matter is to be heard. Any person owning
land in either of such districts, on or before the first day of
such court, may file objections to the regularity or sufficiency
of any of the proceedings had in the premises, and if such
objections are overruled, or if no objections are made, the court
shall enter an order that any two or more of the several districts so asking shall be united and consolidated as one
district, under some appropriate designation, with all the
rights, powers and privileges of such districts organized under
this article, and the lands so included in the new district shall
be subject to all liens, liabilities and obligations of the
original districts, and a new board of supervisors shall be
elected, as now provided in case of election of supervisors, and
all orders made in regard to extension of time, boundaries, or
united districts shall be spread on the records of the circuit
court, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the
recorder of deeds of each county in which any of such lands are
located.